From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: quoting a block of text with ">" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:25:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA49DE7.7040500@mousecar.com> References: <83ocbfpr51.fsf@gnu.org> <77ccee74e9578ebd4936450a706a61fa.squirrel@webmail.tripperjones.com> <87lj6j5q30.fsf@pobox.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285856933 20747 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2010 14:28:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:28:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tom Roche Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 16:28:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1K7o-0002ZM-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:28:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1K7n-0002hu-Nk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42867 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1K70-0002ew-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1K6t-0001QF-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:52574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1K6t-0001Px-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LbcIN-1OMEt80pit-00khI2; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:25:47 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100912) In-Reply-To: <87lj6j5q30.fsf@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:AY88EZSkO83VStW9p1vX0zGxrrkMyNGacED/mFk8IUx qnLoAB9TRjHrKA2y/k/sV/3+OocaaY0vZ7ugdAY3CknQYH9W69 +m6thl1MGdnBPa3KLIaxWgyFbnuZekJX8f/Vb+HyzayVTiEE5J kykpeJIgGKfQvJPK09e3iRVzKoepRZpcuc8168UhpcsYdZbgRc RNQ6/LZicVyP9YUbqNd0AYXNn47f5u2OMYu2KOAMRs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75045 Archived-At: On 09/30/2010 09:16 AM Tom Roche wrote: > Stever Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:59:19 -0700 >>>> is there any function where I can highlight a block of text and >>>> put a ">" in front of it. Here's how I do it: Put a '>' in the first column of the first and second lines of the block of text, The hit C-q. ================== As an alternative, I have this in ~/.emacs (fset 'mailind "\C-a> \C-n\C-a") (global-set-key [C-f8] 'mailind) Then I can hold down C-F8 for as long as I need to prepend those '>' chars. hth, ken